¶ 1Leave a comment on paragraph 110CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph, line-by-line or block-by-block in the margins of a text. New in CommentPress 3.8: select some text and comment specifically on that selection. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog. Use it in combination with multisite, BuddyPress and BuddyPress Groupblog to create communities around your documents.

¶ 2Leave a comment on paragraph 23CommentPress Version 3.8.x (known as CommentPress Core) is now available for download at the WordPress Plugin Directory, and is compatible with the latest WordPress standalone and multisite versions. It may work with earlier versions (from 3.3 onwards) though we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of WordPress to stay as secure as possible. This software is provided as is and the developers do not take responsibility for any use of it.

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The name of the plugin has been changed from CommentPress to CommentPress Core for two reasons: (a) because it serves as the basis for extending it for your purposes and (b) to safeguard historical installations, which could break if they upgrade. Newer CommentPress installations (versions 3.0.x – 3.3.x) can upgrade to the current version.

¶ 4Leave a comment on paragraph 41CommentPress Core merged all the previously separate plugins into a single download, and provides a default theme when it is activated. It can be integrated with BuddyPress and BuddyPress GroupBlog to provide a CommentPress-enabled blog for groups that choose to have them. It also works with BuddyPress Group Sites plugin to enable multiple BuddyPress groups to comment on the same text. There have also been significant upgrades to the functionality of the system.

¶ 5Leave a comment on paragraph 50CommentPress Core makes your document available to a wider readership through a focus on accessibility; it uses valid, semantic markup; it allows navigation around the page with the keyboard and all functionality works with or without Javascript. As far as we can tell, this makes it compatible with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Hi Anne, there is lots of information on this site explaining how to structure and format your content. If you have any specific questions, please don’t hesitate to ask – I’ll be happy to try and help.

[select some text and comment specifically on that selection. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. ]

I would like to thank you for making CommentPress available as Open Source. I have now completed a full book on a topic, I have researched for the past 5 years. It turned out to become much more than a book thanks to CommentPress.

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http://www.argonautica4.co.uk is the website where I’m having the problem with the scroll bar on the table of contents. I use Safari but I’ve looked at it in IE and Chrome and it’s the same. Thanks for replying. Peter

The scrollbar on the table of contents does not activate until the TOC is clicked. Until the bottom of the table is not visible to the user. Have I got too many items on it? I’ve tried adapting the CSS. No success. I hope you can help. Apart from this, I rate Commentpress very highly.